Passion, Absurdity, and Creativity
(This post is part of my blog archiving project. This post appeared on blog.mattgauger.com on December 27, 2009.) Lately I’ve been reminiscing about _whytheluckystiff. He disappeared from the internet earlier this year, taking all of his code, writings, and other creations with him. There’s more info on the
Shiny, Captain!
(This post is part of my blog archiving project. This post appeared on blog.mattgauger.com on December 29, 2009.) Today I decided I wanted to start blogging again. I thought about my options on my hosting, and didn’t particularly feel like running a full-blown blog engine like Wordpress or...
BarCamp Madison 2: A Recap
(This post is part of my blog archiving project. This post appeared on bytecodex.wordpress.com on August 1st, 2008.) Had a blog post that I was writing at BarCampMadison2 as the weekend progressed, and forgot to put it under source control. Now it’s gone! Instead I’ll say that it was a...
Programmer Blogs You Should Read
(This post is part of my blog archiving project. This post appeared on bytecodex.wordpress.com on July 29, 2008. I wanted to note that despite being so short, this blog post was both the most read blog post on my Wordpress blog, as far as I know. Most of...
Update 2: status of this blog
(This post is part of my blog archiving project. This post appeared on bytecodex.wordpress.com on June 3rd, 2008.) I’ve been away for awhile, and I’ve now moved into Milwaukee (well, technically Shorewood, to keep the urbanites happy; it’s not quite far enough downtown for them). I should have a new...
Nuking Arphids (RFID tag)
(This post is part of my blog archiving project. This post appeared on mathiasx.baywords.com on May 6th, 2008.)
Your personal information doesn’t belong to Facebook.
(This post is part of my blog archiving project. This post appeared on mathiasx.baywords.com on May 5th, 2008.) Today I had to perform a lot of voodoo to delete my Facebook account. They allow you to deactivate it, but they keep your personal information. If you contact them...
Git is full of win
(This post is part of my blog archiving project. This post appeared on bytecodex.wordpress.com on March 23, 2008.) The blogosphere seems to be blowing up with regards to the SCM suite git. At least, the blogosphere I frequent. git is an open source project started by Linus...
Milwaukee DevHouse 1 Recap
(This post is part of my blog archiving project. This post appeared on bytecodex.wordpress.com on March 19, 2008.) Pete Prodoehl has the scoop. I don’t really know what to say about it. We all met up at Bucketworks in Milwaukee with the intent to hack and hang...
Fallacy: Startups don't work in the Midwest
(This post is part of blog archiving project. This post appeared on bytecodex.wordpress.com on December 04, 2007.) (aka I’ll let you know when the Midwest stops sucking) Well, the title of this blog post is a little misleading: take for example, 37signals, which was the shining star...